So, that thing happened...

[tielan]

1. This is going to be a rough time for many of you: worried about your health coverage, about your lives, about your right to be yourself and be considered a person with rights, and having to deal with the people who voted for Trump lording it over you, telling you 'where you belong', and other crappy things. Take care of yourself.

2. Have you seen the posts on coping mechanisms for stress and anxiety?

3. Skilled Occupations List for migrations to Australia, 2016-17: it's a limited list, I'm afraid, and I don't generally support fleeing the country, but I appreciate that non-whites and Muslims in particular are looking at increased hate crimes against them, so I'm offering this for consideration. (No guarantees that we don't go the way of America: right wing extremism is rising here, too.)

4. I'm here. We're here together. We're in this together.

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[retsuko]

Maybe I should become a ship's master! ;)

Ha ha, not really, but those are some very interesting categories. Thank you for sharing them.

I'm trying to get to a better mental place about the whole thing, but it is *hard*.

[tielan]

Everyone's still reeling. Some people are trying to be positive about it, but they're looking at it from an international perspective: and the US might start WWIII but it's a different world to the one in WWII and after Iraq and Afghanistan it won't be so easy to divide the world into 'good' and 'bad'.

What they're not seeing is the very human effects on people. Shit stains, shit stinks, shit spreads. And DT is shit, through to the bone. That's gonna stick on everyone...